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September 01 residential approvals:
4-Unit Mixed-use in SFR land
289-Unit Mixed-use
18 Condos
16 Acres of Townhomes
State of Texas Multifamily
And a special adaptive reuse brewery.
SHQ West 35th
Bryker Woods | .27 Acres | 4 Units | 4,300 SF Office
Bryker Woods is zoned for single family, but W. 35th is an "activity corridor."
And mixed-use is encouraged in activity corridors.
These 800 SF units will accompany 4.3K of office space.
This project took 8 months to be approved from initial filing.
Developer: Mehrdad Ebrahimi
3131 E Howard Lane
Manor | 1.6 Acres | 18 Condo Units | 20,000 SF Retail
In the far northeast of Austin, 18 condos and 20k SF of retail will rise next to residential.
Developer: Peter Pham Phuong
3111-12 Caseybridge Court
McKinney | 2.923 Acres | 289 Units
Covered in our last planing report, these two lots that will be added together for a Mixed-use development in East McKinney.
Stats refresh:
200 of those units will be on one site, 89 / 5,245 SF of retail on the other.
20 Units will be workforce housing at 80% or less MFI (Median Family Income).
A conditional overlay that prohibits adult-oriented businesses, convenience storage, and vehicular storage.
Developer: Lichter Equities, LP (Robert J. Lichter)
TXDOT 6
Walden Park at Lakeline | 6.182 Acres | 164 Units
An undeveloped tract of land will add 164 homes to north Texas. The developer? State of Texas.
Developer: State of Texas
Sprinkle Cutoff
Northeast Austin | 16.54 Acres
An undeveloped rural piece of Northeast Autin land will become townhomes. At the maximum density/smallest lot size (Minimum Lot Size 5,750 sq ft), this would be up to 125 lots.
Developer: Sprinkle Creek Corporation
803 /803 ½ West Ave
West End | 0.3085 Acres
Two downtown Austin lots will go from single family to office. But they weren't zoned SFR, they were zoned for Multifamily.
Office, specifically DMU zoning, matches the offices on all sides.
Developer: Helen Ingram and Edsam Ingram
Springdale Brewery
Walnut Bend | 1.959 Acres
Who doesn't love an adapted and reused commercial building, especially for something like a brewery. This almost 2-acre plot will go from Interim Rural Residential (I-RR) to Limited Industrial Services (LI).
Your takeaway:
Breweries are required to be 540 feet from residential in order to serve beer. The site across the street is zoned SFR, but this project got the go-ahead.
How'd they get away with that?
The site across the street is zoned SFR, but it's undeveloped. There's more. Another site down the street is zoned SFR, but it's currently being used by a non-SFR building.
So, it matters more whether the site is actually developed for a particular use rather than just zoned when it comes to minimum separation distances. Atleast, just if you want to serve beer.
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